{"id":271,"date":"2015-04-07T09:07:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/?p=271"},"modified":"2015-04-07T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T22:21:39","slug":"kite-flying-with-fabulous-boats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensing.co.nz\/?p=271","title":{"rendered":"Kite Flying with Fabulous Boats"},"content":{"rendered":"
It is probably unusual to find poems in a sailing magazine, but among fabulous  photographs and articles about old ( and newer) boats, The Mahurangi Cruising Club Yearbook 2014  <\/i>devotes  <\/i>a number of it very glossy pages to <\/p>\n
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just that. In amongst stunning images of gaff-rigged and nostalgia-invoking photos of old treasures still to be found racing on the Auckland harbour on Regatta Day, poetry editor Ian Free has managed to treat the readers of this <\/div>\n
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fine annual record of the club’s activities, to a number of poems – all beautifully illustrated.  W.H.Auden starts off  his sailing experience by ‘butting through scarps of moving marble’ on p.8.  Then ‘my own Turu Manu’  takes off <\/div>\n
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‘ready to  fill the sky with jubilation’ above ‘the sea like pewtered paua shells shivering with excitement’ (p.21). On page 75 Michele Leggott has her ‘Oystercatcher’  and then over the page, a generous double spread of more<\/div>\n
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 poems, photos and images, including Wensley Willcox and the Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz with his poem entitled ‘Islands’. It’s a real excitement to be in there with them, and on the sea ‘living with stories’ among the Ranger, <\/div>\n
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the Waitangi, the Jessie Logan, the Moana and the Breeze and all those splendid ‘modern classics’ making their mark. <\/div>\n
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